31 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Can you believe that pop culture just left these tidbits lying around?
31 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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Like a kid at the beach, we strolled the sandy shores of pop culture and filled our little plastic bucket with a ton of little facts. Some of these look like they've been buried here for quite some time, as they span the whole of pop culture history, but don't worry, we washed them off and shined them up real nice for you. They're great for conversation starters or just to enrich your noggin with some cool and fun pop culture information.

Ooh, when you're done, you could glue them to a blue “Life's a Beach” poster down at the lake house!

The Office

COMEDY NERD GRAGKED.COM Mike Shur Hated Mose The Office Mike Shur, creator of The Good Place and writer for the office, hated playing Mose. Shur says The joke became with the writers because they knew how much I hated it. Greg Daniels even told Shur he had to grow the Mose beard himself because a prosthetic beard would look fake.

Movie Theater Seats

Movie theater seats are usually red because they are harder to see in low light. CRACKED.COM Purkinje Effect is the ten- dency of humans' eyes to get more sensitive towards the blue end of the spec- trum as the lights dim. In low light, red is the first color the human eye loses sight of.

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31 Trivia Nuggets from Pop Culture History for Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Henry Blake

HENRY BLAKE M*A*S*H SI GRACKED COM Blake was one of the first major sitcom characters to die, rather than being recast or written out of a series. Most of the cast didn't know Blake's fate until moments before filming the scene when Radar announces the sad news.

The Legend of Zelda

Koji Kondo composed the Legend of Zelda theme music in just one night. THE LEGEND OF ZEADA During development, the Nintendo team used Ravel's Bolero as the theme, but they discovered at the last minute that it was still protected by copyright. GRACKED.COM

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Altered after Release

Movies altered after the release Then vs. Now 2001: A Space Odyssey After a brief limited release, Stanley Kubrick cut around 19 minutes' worth of space walks and Frank Poole's murder to tighten the narrative. You know, because nothing says pacing like spaceships floating to Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra. i CRACKED.COM

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PlayStation

CRACKED PLAYSTATION'S POLYGON MAN Polygon Man was the face of the original PlayStation, but he was too scary and weird-looking. Не had yellow eyes, surrounded by black, jagged purple spikes, and he was just a floating head. So, they decided to get rid of him.

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‘The Million Dollar Man’ Ted DiBiase

Rich Jerks G GE WWF The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase Не was raised by $ DO professional wrestlers. DE S to Before he grew up to become The Million Dollar S Man, little Ted was the son of pro wrestler Helen Hild and stepson of Iron Mike DiBiase. CRACKED.COM

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Danny Trejo's Heroics

Danny Trejo when CRACKED.COM When Trejo saw an overturned car on a California road in 2019, he rushed to the scene, and pulled a baby from the wreckage.

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The Super Soaker

The super Soaker prototype Inventor Lonnie Johnson, a NASA developer, came up with the idea when a heat pump prototype sprung a leak.

Gaslight

Losing your mind? Someone may be gaslighting YOU. A5LIGH The play (1938) and movie Gaslight (1944) gave name to a form of psychological manipulation i

Flash Mobs

GRAOT The first flash mob occured in June 2003. RUG COLLECTION It was created by Bill Wasik, Harper's Magazine senior editor, as a social experiment.

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